The Wandering Falcon
by
by
Jamil Ahmad
Signed
Published by Hamish Hamilton
London, 2011
New
First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by the author. A first collection of short stories that the author kept in his desk drawer for over 30 years and finally got around to publishing at the tender age of 79.
"The power and beauty of these stories are unparalleled in most fiction to come out of south Asia". Basharat Peer, The Guardian.
"A starkly compassionate portrait of the conditions of life in an inhospitable landscape, where emotions such as love and sorry somehow survive intact. The stories are written in a style that has about it the reverberant clarity of fables, but their intention is realist, uncovering a largely neglected world, and their cumulative effect is moving". Edmund Gordon, The Sunday Times.
"Is this a novel or a collection of short stories? The question doesn’t really matter in the reading of it. The child born in the first chapter/story appears, often in the most tangential fashion, in all the subsequent sections, except one. A third of the way through the book he is given a name: Tor Baz or Black Falcon", Kamila Shamsie, The Observer.
